Max Dashu is the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives where she researches and documents women's history from an international perspective. She built a collection of thousands of images of female cultural heritages across human history. Dashu's work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. Dashu is internationally known for her expertise on ancient female iconography in world archaeology; female spheres of power and matricultures; patriarchies and allied systems of domination; medicine women, female shamans, witches, and witch hunts. Dashu is the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture, published in 2016 among many other publications, videos and essays.